Hit comics

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Hit Comics was the name of several comic book publications from various comic book publishers .

Anglo-American area

Quality comics

In the United States , Quality Comics published 65 issues of the superhero series Hit Comics from 1940 to 1950, in the so-called Golden Age of Comics . In doing so, u. a. Introduced characters such as Red Bee and Kid Eternity . These characters, along with others, were adopted by DC Comics when it closed down in 1956 .

German language area

Bildschriftverlag

→ See also: List of Marvel comic series at BSV

The Bildschriftenverlag (BSV) from Aachen started the first hit comics series in September 1966, which was published in German for the first time in Comichelden from Marvel Verlag , with Spider-Man (then Die Spider ) and Die Fantastischen Vier being printed first. Other series such as The Avengers , X-Men ( X-Men ) and Hulk ( Halk ) followed later . The issues were initially numbered consecutively up to issue 153 (1970). As a result, the Marvel heroes got their own series, trying to keep the title Hit Comics and to tie in with the previous numbering; the resulting series were called z. B. Hit Comics - The Spider . With number 250, the previous name of the magazine disappeared and it was renamed Superheroes until the last issue 254 (early 1973) . When it comes to the publication history of the hit comics at BSV, fans today speak of five different phases due to the confusion.

Karicartoon Verlag / JNK-Verlag

Comic magazine

At the beginning of 1998 the Karicartoon Verlag published the bimonthly (later also monthly) magazine Hit Comics , which as a specialist magazine reported on comics with a focus on superheroes and borrowed its series title from the BSV series. It was published in a similar way as it was known from the then discontinued Comixene magazine . The content ranged from news from the comic area to reports and reviews of new releases and comic fairs to price lists and comics themselves. Individual issues from various publishers were also attached as Hit Comics special editions . There were also special editions for X-Men (1998) and Superman (1999) and a hit comics handbook (2002). The magazine editors also carried out a vote in various categories among the readers every year from 1999 to 2002 as an audience award. Then the winners were given the golden fan boy. In doing so, u. a. wanted the best German-speaking and international cartoonists and authors of comics. With number 26 (May 2001) Hit Comics Verlag , the later publisher Jurgeit, Krismann & Nobst ( JNK for short ), took over the publication of the issue. In September 2002, number 34 marked the end of the series as a comic magazine. The publisher then continued the specialist magazine Comixene from 2003 , which was discontinued in 2012.

comic book

From 2004 to 2006 and issues 35 to 39, the series was continued by JNK-Verlag, but image comics for Savage Dragon , Powers and The Pro ( Die Schlampe ) were printed. During this time, special editions continued to appear and, on the occasion of the filming, a third special on Hellboy (2004), which, in contrast to the first two editions of this series, was a pure comic book . At JNK, a monthly comic book with varying content was launched in mid-2010 with the magazine Comix .

ilovecomics publisher

In September 2019, the ilovecomics publisher started a new series entitled Hit Comics , with a new issue appearing about every four months. In terms of content, the US series Black Cat (German Black Cat ; series by Harvey Comics ) and Doll Man (series by Quality Comics ) alternate. The stories were originally written in the 1940s ; H. in the Golden Age .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Digital Comic Museum. digitalcomicmuseum.com, 2018, accessed April 12, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Martin Jurgeit: The history of superhero comics in Germany - Part 2: Hit Comics , Hit Comics # 2, Karicartoon Verlag, Hanover April 1998, pp. 78-80.
  3. ↑ The Five Phases of Hit Comics. www.wmca.de, 2003, accessed on April 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ www.image-etc.de: Hit Comics - a look into the past ( memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), June 18, 2011.
  5. ↑ Hit Comics. ilovecomics Verlag, 2020, accessed on April 12, 2020 .